Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that?

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.

I'm drowning my brother drowning.

In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.

I did, however, manage to do it without hurting those dogs. Very considerate of me. Don't let it be said I'm not an animal lover-that wretched kitsune aside.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.